Chemistry for dummies
Book - 2003
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- Published
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New York, NY :
Wiley Pub
c2003.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xviii, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9780764554308
- Introduction
- About This Book
- How to Use This Book
- Assumptions (And You Know What They Say about Assumptions!)
- How This Book Is Organized
- Icons Used in This Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1. Basic Concepts of Chemistry
- Chapter 1. What Is Chemistry, and Why Do I Need to Know Some?
- What Exactly Is Chemistry?
- So What Does a Chemist Do All Day?
- And Where Do Chemists Actually Work?
- Chapter 2. Matter and Energy
- States of Matter: Macroscopic and Microscopic Views
- Ice in Alaska, Water in Texas: Matter Changes States
- Pure Substances and Mixtures
- Measuring Matter
- Nice Properties You've Got There
- Energy (Wish I Had More)
- Measuring Energy
- Chapter 3. Something Smaller Than an Atom? Atomic Structure
- Subatomic Particles: So That's What's in an Atom
- The Nucleus: Center Stage
- Where Are Those Electrons?
- Electron configurations (Bed Check for Electrons)
- Isotopes and Ions: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
- Chapter 4. The Periodic Table (But No Chairs)
- Repeating Patterns of Periodicity
- Understanding How Elements Are Arranged in the Periodic Table
- Chapter 5. Nuclear Chemistry: It'll Blow Your Mind
- It All Starts with the Atom
- Radioactivity and Man-Made Radioactive Decay
- Natural Radioactive Decay: How Nature Does It
- Half-Lives and Radioactive Dating
- Gone (Nuclear) Fission
- Nuclear Fusion: The Hope for Our Energy Future
- Am I Glowing? The Effects of Radiation
- Part II. Blessed Be the Bonds That Tie
- Chapter 6. Opposites Do Attract: Ionic Bonds
- The Magic of an Ionic Bond: Sodium + Chlorine = Table Salt
- Positive and Negative Ions: Cations and Anions
- Polyatomic Ions
- Putting Ions Together: Ionic Compounds
- Naming Ionic Compounds
- Electrolytes and Nonelectrolytes
- Chapter 7. Covalent Bonds: Let's Share Nicely
- Covalent Bond Basics
- Naming Binary Covalent Compounds
- So Many Formulas, So Little Time
- Some Atoms Are More Attractive Than Others
- What Does Water Really Look Like? The VSEPR Theory
- Chapter 8. Chemical Cooking: Chemical Reactions
- What You Have and What You'll Get: Reactants and Products
- How Do Reactions Occur? Collision Theory
- What Kind of Reaction Do You Think I Am?
- Balancing Chemical Reactions
- Chemical Equilibrium
- Le Chatelier's Principle
- Reacting Fast and Reacting Slow: Chemical Kinetics
- Chapter 9. Electrochemistry: Batteries to Teapots
- There Go Those Pesky Electrons: Redox Reactions
- Power On the Go: Electrochemical Cells
- Five Dollars for a Gold Chain? Electroplating
- This Burns Me Up! Combustion of Fuels and Foods
- Part III. The Mole: The Chemist's Best Friend
- Chapter 10. The Mole: Can You Dig It?
- Counting by Weighing
- Pairs, Dozens, Reams, and Moles
- Chemical Reactions and Moles
- Chapter 11. Mixing Matter Up: Solutions
- Solutes, Solvents, and Solutions
- Solution Concentration Units
- Colligative Properties of Solutions
- Smoke, Clouds, Whipped Cream, and Marshmallows: Colloids All
- Chapter 12. Sour and Bitter: Acids and Bases
- Properties of Acids and Bases: Macroscopic View
- What Do Acids and Bases Look Like?--Microscopic View
- Acids to Corrode, Acids to Drink: Strong and Weak Acids and Bases
- An Old Laxative and Red Cabbage: Acid-Base Indicators
- How Acidic Is That Coffee: The pH Scale
- Buffers: Controlling pH
- Antacids: Good, Basic Chemistry
- Chapter 13. Balloons, Tires, and Scuba Tanks: The Wonderful World of Gases
- Microscopic View of Gases: The Kinetic Molecular Theory
- I'm Under Pressure--Atmospheric Pressure, That Is
- Gases Obey Laws, Too--Gas Laws
- Stoichiometry and the Gas Laws
- Dalton's and Graham's Laws
- Part IV. Chemistry in Everyday Life: Benefits and Problems
- Chapter 14. The Chemistry of Carbon: Organic Chemistry
- Hydrocarbons: From Simple to Complex
- Functional Groups: That Special Spot
- Chapter 15. Petroleum: Chemicals for Burning or Building
- Don't Be Crude, Get Refined
- The Gasoline Story
- Chapter 16. Polymers: Making Big Ones from Little Ones
- Natural Monomers and Polymers
- Classifying Unnatural (Synthetic) Monomers and Polymers
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle--Plastics
- Chapter 17. Chemistry in the Home
- Chemistry in the Laundry Room
- Chemistry in the Kitchen
- Chemistry in the Bathroom
- Chemistry in the Medicine Cabinet
- Chapter 18. Cough! Cough! Hack! Hack! Air Pollution
- Civilization's Effect on the Atmosphere (Or Where This Mess Began)
- To Breathe or Not to Breathe: Our Atmosphere
- Leave My Ozone Alone: Hair Spray, CFCs, and Ozone Depletion
- Is It Hot in Here to You? (The Greenhouse Effect)
- Brown Air? (Photochemical Smog)
- "I'm Meltingggggg!"--Acid Rain
- Chapter 19. Brown, Chunky Water? Water Pollution
- Where Does Our Water Come From, and Where Is It Going?
- Water: A Most Unusual Substance
- Yuck! Some Common Water Pollutants
- Wastewater Treatment
- Drinking Water Treatment
- Part V. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 20. Ten Serendipitous Discoveries in Chemistry
- Archimedes: Streaking Around
- Vulcanization of Rubber
- Right- and Left-Handed Molecules
- William Perkin and a Mauve Dye
- Kekule: The Beautiful Dreamer
- Discovering Radioactivity
- Finding Really Slick Stuff: Teflon
- Stick 'Em Up!! Sticky Notes
- Growing Hair
- Sweeter Than Sugar
- Chapter 21. Ten Great Chemistry Nerds
- Amedeo Avogadro
- Niels Bohr
- Marie (Madame) Curie
- John Dalton
- Michael Faraday
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- Linus Pauling
- Ernest Rutherford
- Glenn Seaborg
- That Third-Grade Girl Experimenting with Vinegar and Baking Soda
- Chapter 22. Ten Useful Chemistry Web Sites
- American Chemical Society
- Material Safety Data Sheets
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Chemistry .About.Com
- Webelements.com
- Plastics.com
- Webbook
- ChemClub.com
- Institute of Chemical Education
- The Exploratorium
- Appendix A. Scientific Units: The Metric System
- SI Prefixes
- Length
- Mass
- Volume
- Temperature
- Pressure
- Energy
- Appendix B. How to Handle Really Big or Really Small Numbers
- Exponential Notation
- Addition and Subtraction
- Multiplication and Division
- Raising a Number to a Power
- Using a Calculator
- Appendix C. Unit Conversion Method
- Appendix D. Significant Figures and Rounding Off
- Numbers: Exact and Counted Versus Measured
- Determining the Number of Significant Figures in a Measured Number
- Reporting the Correct Number of Significant Figures
- Addition and subtraction
- Multiplication and division
- Rounding Off Numbers
- Index